The drug, cannabidiol, was tested in 88 patients with schizophrenia, who had failed to respond to anti-psychotic medication.

During the trial, patients remained on their anti-psychotic medication and received doses of either cannabidiol or a placebo, the company said in a statement

GW is testing its cannabis drugs for a number of indications, including cancer-related pain and epilepsy.

Marijuana, which is the dried bud of the cannabis plant, is illegal under U.S. federal law but is allowed for medical use in about half the country’s states.

Interest in the medical effects of cannabis has been spurred recently by the legalization of recreational marijuana shops in Colorado and Canada’s move to create a federally regulated medical marijuana industry.